1. Gwen Harwood (1920)

Australian Poet

Renowned Australian poet and librettist known for The Present Tense and other poetry collections. Her numerous literary honors include the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry and the Patrick White Award.

2. Saeed Khan (1966)

Australian Poet

Pakistani social and environmental activist who is best known for his Urdu poetry. His poetry collections include Manzar Baat Karte Hain, Hijrat Ke Parinday, and Sehra Ka Gulab.

3. Ross Clark (1953)

Australian Poet

Known for collections such as With Fires on Every Horizon and Salt Flung into the Sky, this haiku poet received numerous honors, including the Australian Book Review's Poetry Prize and...

4. Steven Herrick (1958)

Australian Poet

Steven Herrick is an Australian poet and author. Herrick has published twenty-one books for adults young adults and children. Herrick was born the youngest of seven children. His first published...

5. Jill Hellyer (1925)

Australian Poet

Jill Hellyer is an Australian poet and writer and one of the founding members of the Australian Society of Authors. She is the recipient of an Order of Australia Medal...

6. Bruce Dawe (1930)

Australian Poet

Donald Bruce Dawe AO is an Australian poet considered by some as one of the most influential Australian poets of all time.

7. Thomas Shapcott (1935)

Australian Poet

Thomas William Shapcott AO is an Australian poet novelist playwright editor librettist short story writer and teacher.

8. Peter Boyle (poet) (Unknow)

Australian Poet

Peter Boyle is an Australian poet and translator. He has published nine collections of poetry including The Blue Cloud of Crying and Coming Home From the World. Boyle has also...

9. John Leonard (poet) (1965)

Australian Poet

John Leonard is an Australian poet. He was born in the UK and from 1984 to 1987 studied at Oxford University. In 1991 he moved to Australia. He currently lives...

10. Jan Owen (1940)

Australian Poet

Jan Owen is a contemporary Australian poet.

11. Geoff Page (1940)

Australian Poet

Geoffrey Donald Page is an Australian poet translator teacher and jazz enthusiast. He has published nineteen collections of poetry as well as prose and verse novels. Poetry and jazz are...

12. Peter Bakowski (1954)

Australian Poet

Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book but with some stylistic similarities...

13. Dorothy Porter (1954)

Australian Poet

Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.

14. John Forbes (poet) (1950)

Australian Poet

John Forbes was an Australian poet. Forbes was born in Melbourne but during his childhood his family lived in northern Queensland Malaya and New Guinea. He went to Sydney University...

15. Noel Rowe (1951)

Australian Poet

Noel Rowe was a poet who lived in Sydney Australia and was Senior Lecturer in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney where he was also awarded the University Medal...

16. Unorthodox Australian Poet (1955)

Australian Poet

Unorthodox Australian Poet is the pen name of West Australian born poet Garry. W. Gosney. He has also published works as The Perth Desperado.

17. Frank the Poet (Unknow)

Australian Poet

Poet was a convict transported to New South Wales from Ireland who composed cheeky improvised verse expressing the convict's point of view. In 1832 he was convicted of larceny...

18. Caroline Caddy (1944)

Australian Poet

Caroline Mavis Caddy is an Australian poet.

19. Jen Saunders (1962)

Australian Poet

Jennifer May Jen Saunders is an Australian poet painter and singer-musician. Her poetry has been published in two books Translations and In a Night House. In 2008 under the name...

20. Adrian Caesar (Unknow)

Australian Poet

Adrian Caesar is an Australian author and poet. Caesar was born in Manchester United Kingdom and emigrated to Australia in 1982. He studied at Reading University and has held appointments...

21. Liam Ferney (1979)

Australian Poet

Liam Ferney is an Australian poet living in Brisbane. His first collection of poetry Popular Mechanics was published in 2004. His second collection Career' was published in 2011 by Vagabond...

22. Bruce Beaver (1928)

Australian Poet

Bruce Victor Beaver was an Australian poet and novelist.

23. Vincent Buckley (1925)

Australian Poet

Vincent Thomas Buckley was an Australian poet teacher editor essayist and critic.

24. Benjamin Frater (1979)

Australian Poet

Benjamin Frater also known as The Catholic Yak was an Australian poet. Frater grew up in Western Sydney and attended the University of Wollongong. He published one book of poetry...

25. Boey Kim Cheng (1965)

Australian Poet

Boey Kim Cheng is a Singapore-born Australian poet. He is of Chinese descent. As a student he won the National University of Singapore Poetry Competition and has since received...

26. Victor Daley (1858)

Australian Poet

Victor James William Patrick Daley was an Australian poet. He was born at the Navan County Armagh Ireland and was educated at the Christian Brothers at Devonport in England. He...

27. Ian Mudie (1911)

Australian Poet

Ian Mayelston Mudie was an Australian poet and author born in Hawthorn South Australia son of Henry Mayelston Mudie.

28. David Campbell (poet) (1915)

Australian Poet

David Watt Ian Campbell was an Australian poet who wrote over 15 volumes of prose and poetry. He was also a talented rugby union player who represented England in two...

29. Lesley Lebkowicz (Unknow)

Australian Poet

Lesley Lebkowicz is an Australian poet. Lesley Lebkowicz is a Canberra based writer of poetry and prose. She recently won the 2013 ACT poetry prize and is currently working on...

30. Hubert Church (1857)

Australian Poet

Hubert Newman Wigmore Church was an Australian poet. Church was born in Hobart Tasmania the son of Hubert Day Church and his wife Mary Ann. His father a barrister came...

31. Adam Aitken (1960)

Australian Poet

Adam Aitken is an Australian poet.

32. Frank Wilmot (1881)

Australian Poet

Leslie Thomson Wilmot who published his work under the pseudonym Furnley Maurice was a noted Australian poet best known for To God: From the Warring Nations.

33. Libby Hart (1971)

Australian Poet

Libby Hart is a poet from Victoria Australia. She was awarded the 2003 D. J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship and its artist-in-residence appointment from the Australian Centre at the University of...

34. Philip Martin (poet) (1931)

Australian Poet

Philip Martin was an Australian academic poet translator critic and broadcaster. Born in Melbourne Martin taught English at Monash University from 1964 and his poems have been published anthologised and...

35. Jordie Albiston (1961)

Australian Poet

Jordie Albiston is a contemporary Australian poet and academic. Jordie Albiston grew up in Melbourne one of three or four children. She studied flute at the Victorian College of the...

36. David McKee Wright (1869)

Australian Poet

David McKee Wright was an Irish-born poet and journalist active in New Zealand and Australia.

37. Francis Brabazon (1907)

Australian Poet

s Brabazon was an Australian poet and a member of Meher Baba's mandali. Brabazon was born in London. His family moved to Australia when he was a boy. In the...

38. Caroline Carleton (1811)

Australian Poet

Caroline Carleton was a South Australian poet born in England who is best known for her prize-winning poem Song of Australia which put to a tune by Carl Linger was...

39. R. A. Simpson (1929)

Australian Poet

Ronald Albert Simpson was an Australian poet and poetry editor artist and art lecturer. He was one of the Melbourne poets and had a long tenure as poetry editor of...

40. Lex Banning (Unknow)

Australian Poet

Arthur Alexander Banning was an Australian lyric poet. Disabled from birth by cerebral palsy he was unable to speak clearly or to write with a pen. Yet he overcame his...

41. Frank S. Williamson (1865)

Australian Poet

s Samuel Williamson was an Australian poet who was published under the name Frank S. Williamson.

42. John Philip Bourke (1860)

Australian Poet

John Philip Bourke was an Australian poet. Bourke was born in Nundle New South Wales on the Peel River diggings New South Wales the son of William David Bourke butcher...

43. George Essex Evans (1863)

Australian Poet

George Essex Evans was an Australian poet.

44. Andy Kissane (Unknow)

Australian Poet

Andy Kissane is a Melbourne-born Sydney-based writer. He has won several awards for his writing including the Sydney Writers' Festival Poetry Olympics the Publisher's Cup Cricket Poetry Award the Harri...

45. William Baylebridge (1883)

Australian Poet

Baylebridge was the pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge an Australian poet and short-story writer. Blocksidge was born in Brisbane Queensland the son of George Henry Blocksidge an auctioneer and estate...

46. Andrew Sant (Unknow)

Australian Poet

Andrew Sant is an English born Australian poet. In 1962 Sant moved from London where he was born with his family to Melbourne where he finished his formal education. He...

47. Liz Winfield (1964)

Australian Poet

Liz Winfield is a contemporary Australian poet. Liz Winfield lives in Hobart Tasmania. In 1999 Liz instigated the Republic Readings in Hobart and has coordinated them ever since. She is...

48. Ian McBryde (Unknow)

Australian Poet

Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. He was born in 1953 in Toronto Canada but has been a long time Australian resident. In addition to writing poetry he has also...

49. Philip Neilsen (1949)

Australian Poet

Philip Max Neilsen is an Australian poet fiction writer for adults young adults and children and editor. He is professor of creative writing and English at the Queensland University of...

50. Ada Verdun Howell (1902)

Australian Poet

Ada Verdun Howell was an Australian author and poet. Born in Beaufort Victoria on her father's sheep property she was educated at Ruytons Girls' School. Her sister was the artist...